Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-12

wsY, which it is believed they will cheer
fully co. Fort Worth would like to see
Smithfeld get the prize Of y depot.
The Fort Worth and Denver is moving
right along with track laying on the ez-
tension from Qusngh, st the rate Of 5
mile end half day, and large force
is building from Trinidad ia this direC-
ton.
= MessrS. Barter and Swayne, who have
! been working on the right of way Of the
! st. Louis, Arkansas and Texas, stated
Yesterday that they were getting along
nicely now, and would get all the balance
Of the right Of way, with TWO exceptions,
without any trouble.
From FsTmersville to Fort Worth is
iftY-siX niles, perhaps less; from Fort
Worth 10 Cleburne is twenty eight miles.
! Total, eighty-tOur miles. From Cleburne
to Dallas is fifty-four miles; from Dallas
to F2rmerville thirty-elght miles. Total,
ninety-two miles. From Fort Worth to
Galveston is rs miles; from Dallas to
Galveston is 81 miles. All the above
distances are via the Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fe, and explain why the company
will build the Farmersville and Fort
Worth line.
All railroads lead to Fort Worth, and it
is getting so now that most of them make
Fort Worth the terminus. The Railway
Register tells Of the last one: Articles
of incorporation Of the Denver, Russell
Springs and Southeastern Railroad Com
p2ny were filed in the Office Of the Kan
sas Secretary of State on Tuesday. The
purposes for which the company is formed
are to construct and operate g railroad Of
standard gauge from the city of Denver,
Col, in q sOutheasterly direction TO Rus
sell Springs, Logan county, Kan, and
thence through any of the follow
ing counties IN the state OF Kan
sas. Line No. Cove, Ness, Rush,
Barton, Rice, WOodson, Allen and Bour-
bon: line No 2-FrOm Russell Springs
through Logan county, south through
Scott, Finney, Haskell and Meade coun-
ties, in a sOutheTly direction to Fort
Worth, Tex. The principal place of bust
ness of the new corporation will be at
MCPHERSON, Kan. Term, ninety mine
years; capital stock, $4,000, OOO The
first board of directors contains D. N.
Richardson Of Denver, Col; James War
den, Frankfort, Kan; J. t. HiltY, Rus
sell Springs, Kan; James c. Frazier,
Fort Scott, Kan and II, Smith. II. L.
Whitford, T. c. Sawyer, B. L. Allison
and c. A. Walter of Mcpherson, Kan.
The st. Louis Railway Register has the
following, which THE GAZETTE cOrreCts
in one particular. The Register will note
its error: The vigorous manner in which
the affairs of the narrow guage Texas
and ST. Louis Railway have been
Strengthened out and the property de-
veloped is remarkable. To a man who
finds less pleasure than President For
dyCe does in hard, inCessant labor, the
task would have been too great to be |
accomplished. It was no common under !
taking to construct standard gauge road !
and q financially sound company upon the |
ruins OF bankrupt narrow gauge. But |
Mr.. F0rdyce has done this and more. OIL
the new work undertaken this season By |
the St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Rail !
way Company the Fort Worth extension /
is perhaps being urged forward ct pres |
ent with most speed. The value Of this |
branch to the main line warrants the use |
OF the most expeditions means and meth |
DDS for its completion, and very
soon it will be ready TO turn over |
to the operating department The two
extensions Of this railway Ofmuch interest
TO Arkansas are the line reaching from
the main line to Shreveport and from the
main line to Little Rock. The CoHsTuC-
ton of these branches will be conducted
Oy the construction firm of McCsrty &
kerrigan, and although this partnership
IS new one, the gentlemen interested in
t are well known in railway circles where
,heir names represent ability ef high
order That the work for which
hey hold contracts will be well and
done is perfectly under
stood. The Cotton Belt surveyors are
low at work along the line between Nal
len snd Grand Tower, which indicates
hat the road is TO be extended northward
'ery soon. It will be cause for much re-
yret If the line shall cross the Mississippi
liver and build it's terminals on the other
tide, but it must be confessed that the
Inducements held out by ST. Louis to the
company to come into this city have not
)een at all enticing.